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...Land?the row about the row about The Waste Land?One of Ours? " ? France gave her to us, they murmured,' as they passed the statue of Liberty"?whee!?books about sex? Is there a literacy Court of Star Chamber that meets at the Algonquin ? ? Mr. . Conrad's modesty ? Housman's Last Poems?an antique bitterness?laconic magnificence?the Clean Books' Bill and Justice Ford's unmarried daughter?wonder what Justice Ford's unmarried daughter thinks about it all??Gertrude Atherton?Black Oxen?hoping against hope that the Steinach process of rejuvenation will...
Those who have read "Conrad in Quest of His Youth" may wonder how it is that so many men every June undertake a similar pilgrimage with equally disappointing results. We do not mean to imply that all alumni going back for commencement approach their reunions, with Conrad's objective in mind. Many are too young still to feel the urge. Others have obeyed it in the past and are now too wise. But those grads who have arrived, say, at the stage of their twentieth reunion are neither too young nor too wise--Conrads...
...this is part and parcel of the young-old grad, or Conrad, complex. But one of its principal ingredients has not been mentioned the challenge to middle age implied in the class secretary's facetious and back-slapping form letter. "Here are the old names, the old setting," it says in effect; "we dare you to fit yourself again into the picture...
This last fact seems to be true of the yarn-spinner. The writer who takes his trade seriously as art with a capital " A " finds the process of creating a masterpiece onerous. Take Joseph Conrad, for example, who made a statement on his arrival here, or was so quoted, that he had never learned to enjoy writing. But the raconteur, whose one guide is a brilliant imagination who lets his only guide be the swift telling of a tale of life, love, mystery and the complications along the side lines. That must be real...
...Joseph Conrad: " On arriving in America I told reporters: 'Writing is a frightful grind.' I then retired to the home of my host, Frank N. Doubleday, to rest for several days and recover from an attack of lumbago and gout...